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After a summer of protest, a number of proposals are circulating to strengthen civilian oversight of the police department. They face calls for more radical measures, doubts about effectiveness and memories of a seven-decade effort that has fallen short.
Since the beginning of the year, rates of reported car thefts in New York City have climbed by 60 percent—the biggest increase of any of the seven major felonies tracked by the NYPD
Pennsylvania legalized many fireworks in 2017. Several lawmakers there want to rein the sales in, citing noise, fires and ‘chaos.’
Not everyone agrees on what defunding would mean, or what it would look like.
His campaign relies on Twitter and Facebook posts, pictures and videos capturing him doing old-school politics, like giving away food, toys and—since the coronavirus pandemic hit New York—masks.
To get a better sense of what was seen around the city last week, City Limits surveyed all the city’s 59 community boards to ask what violent unrest—and peaceful protest—they had seen.
There appears to be no accurate record of how many people per month or per year require the services of an interpreter to exercise their right to access to justice.
Classes for certain college majors, the move to remove learning has been especially jarring, as science labs and acting workshops don’t translate so easily to Zoom.
Robert Lind, 73, is serving a 50-years-to-life sentence for a shooting in 1983.
Cleaning is now being done in earnest, residents say, but delays in basic maintenance have been the norm for years.
Undocumented migrant farm workers are facing evictions as farms in upstate New York encounter financial losses, according to farm worker advocacy groups.
